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The Higgs Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES | $295,000 |
| BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG | $60,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR | $50,000 |
| PATRIOT MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TURNING POINT | $20,000 |
| WEDDINGTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| NO ONE LEFT BEHIND FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| HOME FOR OUR TROOPS | $5,000 |
| BOB WOODRUFF FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +42%- PMPatriot Military Family Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $86k · revenue +57%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- WWESTPOINTone grant, 2017 · $35k
- NONo One Left Behindone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -83%
- TITHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUNDone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.
To serve the needs of veterans of foreign wars and their families.
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
To foster camaraderie among united states veterans of overseas conflicts. to serve our veterans, the military and our communities. to advocate on behalf of all veterans.
To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…
Quick reaction foundation (qrf) is a non-profit organization founded by veterans to provide rapid response to the developing needs of elite operators and their families from within select u.s. special operations command ("ussocom") teams.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR INC ↗
- Who funds Patriot Military Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds No One Left Behind ↗
- Who funds JOINT SERVICE SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds No One Left Behind Foundation Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOWS WISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BABY BUNDLES ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Higgs Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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